Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2017

If you look at companies like Google and Facebook, the amount of power they have is almost unprecedented in history. On the other hand, you have a tremendous amount of power in the hands of a new, young group of people who run some of the most powerful companies on earth. It's not a place for freely philosophizing.

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Policies Industry Groups System 81

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

I got this idea from a trauma-informed teaching seminar I went to as part of my professional development. I talk to kids 1-1 about that in behavior conferences, too. Then, I let students decorate the outside with paper and hot glue objects onto it. I let them fit whatever tiny objects they wanted inside.

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Strategy Classroom Meeting Exercises 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

In this session, Adrian will talk about some of the great things he has been doing since this award, his current role, Quantum Victoria and the international conferences that he has attended. Adrian won the coveted Outstanding Secondary Teacher for Victoria last year. Follow Penny''s e-footsteps with us and continue or commence your own.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2017

A quick tour of the edu-blogosphere reveals numerous reading lists, playlists, conferences, workshops, seminars, webinars, retreats and edcamps to engage with over two short months. there just won’t be enough time this summer to read every book, organize every article, attend every conference or chat with every colleague.

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Edcamps Conference Twitter Facebook 104

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

The Whole Brain Teaching organization has at least 28 “certified” instructors around the country, according to its website, and claims to have given free seminars to 50,000 educators—many of whom discover the teaching style on YouTube or through word of mouth. Our YouTube videos have gotten 8 million views.”

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Training Video Study Social Media 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

At Marshall Pomeroy Elementary School in Milpitas, California, Deanna Sainten leads sixth graders in a Socratic seminar about A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park while students at other tables work on book reports or online lessons in several subjects during personalized-learning time. Photo: Chris Berdik. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Nik Peachey

JUNE 27, 2012

This has been a common theme to many of the presentations, workshops, webinars and seminars that I have been asked to do over the last few years, but however many times I try to present on this subject I never really feel that I get the message across as clearly and persuasively as I would like. This video shows how Zite works.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. All this makes it imperative for us to ask – in the formulation of this conference theme, certainly, but obviously well beyond this event – who is reconstituting technology-enhanced learning.

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We called it EdSurge Independent: a Medium publication , a Facebook community and a cohort of students meeting weekly. Two years ago, my second-year spring, I went to a student-run, student-organized conference and presented on Mina Loy. Our self-assembled seminar now has inside jokes and latent debates. She’s a poet.

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Adaptive Learning Facebook Conference MOOC 60